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Love Lesson #976

If you’re like everyone else in the world, you could benefit from some love lessons. This is a pretty good one.
by Burt Gershater

Hi again! Thanks for reading this month’s piece about love wisdom. I say “wisdom” humbly, but also with confidence that my nearly 77 years attending the open-door World University of Love has left me with a few gems to share. As I’m sure you would concur, tuition at this University is priceless and advanced degrees […]

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Awakening Your Inner Hero: I’ve Been Working on the Railroad

You and I are capable of miracles every single day. Think about it.
by Burt Gershater

Life is Precious are the words that led off last month’s message. This month, my starting words are, Life is Interesting. I’ll do my best to be more creative next month… but with that said, minimally, life really is interesting! It’s also amazing, challenging, beyond wonderful, miraculous, at times sadly painful and even horrifying. Much […]

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Awakening Your Inner Hero: Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

The wisdom, life is precious, is a relatively well-known concept. But what does it actually mean in our day-to-day-lives? It can mean a lot when we put it into practice.
by Burt Gershater

Life is precious. It’s not just me saying that. Everyone that matters knows, at some level, life is precious. And every single one of us matters! Every single one of us matters? Every single thing matters. But we’ll deal with that one on another day. What does life is precious actually mean at a practical, […]

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Awakening Your Inner Hero: What Is Your Purpose?

Life with a purpose is truly living. Please take time to ponder your purpose.
by Burt Gershater

Is there a more important question? What the heck are we doing in our allotted time anyway…besides all the doing we’re usually doing? Does our doing have a greater purpose? Every one of us has or have had a few jobs. In each of these employment situations we were given a relatively specific purpose by […]

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From Darkness to Light, Again

A column to help people live a kinder and more meaningful life
by Burt Gershater

This is the season of Christmas, Chanukah and the New Year, for celebrating the power of light over darkness. Every day is now moving inexorably closer toward the light. We count on it. We’ve heard it said many, many times, that light conquers darkness. One little matchstick is able to bring light to a pitch-dark […]

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Awakening Your Inner Hero: Depression, Hope and Awe

Negative thoughts and feelings know what the heck they are doing. They are skilled at their one and only purpose in life: to keep us separate us from the light.
by Burt Gershater

My message today is meant to be personal. I may not know you as an acquaintance or a friend, but at some level I do know you, and at some level you know me. Sure, there are things we’ll never know about each other, but there are also things that link all of us together, […]

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Awakening Your Inner Hero: You Are Important

A column to help locals live a kinder and more courageous life
by Burt Gershater

What do you know? You likely have knowledge and/or skills that others can benefit from. A dentist knows how to repair our ever-decaying teeth. A painter knows how to cover fading walls and brighten our lives. Professional basketball players know how to shoot, rebound and play tough defense. Comedians know how to make us laugh…what […]

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AWAKENING YOUR INNER HERO: Hate is Poison

A column to help locals live a kinder and more courageous life
by Burt Gershater

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness… ~Martin Luther King Jr. Once upon a time, way, way, way back before Cheerios and McDonalds, there was no hate in the world. … That […]

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